Overview of verb desert

The verb desert has 3 senses

• abandon, forsake, desolate, desert -- (leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children")


• defect, desert -- (desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot")


• desert -- (leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period")

Overview of adj deserted

The adj deserted has 1 sense

• abandoned, derelict, deserted -- (forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse")